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Edge of War

By: Anthony J. Melchiorri
Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
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Humanity's expansion into the stars has led to awe-inspiring discoveries - and terrifying new threats. An insidious alien race is waging an interstellar war, enslaving any civilization they encounter to carry out their galactic rampage. Now they have set their sights on mankind.

Tag Brewer is a medical scientist, not a ship's captain. But as humanity's survival hangs in the balance, he must lead a ragtag crew of humans, a skeptical alien, and a synthetic lifeform into the depths of enemy territory. There he forms an uneasy alliance with a group of aliens - the Mechanics - fleeing from the destruction.

There is only one way to track down and stop their frightening new adversaries. Tag must follow the trail of devastation left behind in the fallen Mechanic empire, where he hopes to recruit other survivors to their cause. But what Tag and his crew find is far more dangerous than any of them thought possible.

©2017 Anthony Melchiorri (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Probably the worst series I managed to finish

The interactions of the characters and races were so unrealistic, I spent most of my listening time inwardly groaning and hoping everyone would die as the insurmountable odds stacked on top of insurmountable odds which were of course stacked on top of insurmountable odds. Heroes are made through determination and genius or talent, not constant miraculous and unlikely intervention.

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mildly entertaining

if you were to play a drinking game while listening/reading this book, it would go like this.... Take a shot every time a simile or metaphor used in a description. Get alcohol poisoning after chapter 12. Don't try this at home children. feels as if the author is an excited 12yr old penning a creative writing writing project for midterms. but still mildly entertaining, if you have nothing better to do

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Needs more depth

I like the story but it needs more depth. The action is pretty good but Anthony Melchiorri fails when it comes to building on the characters. I'm at the end of the second book and I still don't know enough about any of the characters to really care about them.

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Just as fantastic as the first

The first book I found unexpectedly great, especially considering it was included with Audible for free. This second book continued in it's greatness and continued to not offer a plethora of sexual content and bad language that so many books seem to today while keeping me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Will continue with the third book next.

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I will read book 3. Author is above average.

I have tried to give Mr. Hastings every benifit of doubt, but, any narrator who does not know the pronunciation of the word "ensign", is not fit for military fiction. When in doubt he tends to use the long vowel. (Often wrong.) But after two books, my irritation with his work looms large in my mind.
The series, so far, is a solid 4 stars. And I am, admittedly, a hard marker.

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The reader is a little dry

The story is really good but I feel like there a lot of holes in the story that don't make sense, let start with the fact that the ship has no real crew besides the bridge people and the Marines, who is take care of the engines when they are in battle or when they need repairs. I understand that there is repair bots but still need a engineering crew and if anyone says that the alien is the engineering for the engines then why is he on the bridge control weapon and not on a terminal that watch the engines levels..

Now when it comes to the alien engineer it is very hard to tell what one is talking when all there voices sound so similar and don't get me start on the female voices.

If it was not for the bad humor that occurs most of the time, it would be hard to finish the book since the reader sounds like nails on a chalkboard, just when you think your about hear some emotion start come out they all turn back into robots that don't know what they doing, the actual robot in the storyline has more feelings then the main character. The one thing that so great about the first and second book they don't over explain the technology that they have that they're using like compellers what do they do every time I hear them say the compellers I'm thinking of a see worthy ship and that's spaceworthy or they don't explain why the shit that they're on can land on a planet and take off at the same time too. you don't really get a prospective of how big the ship is or how many people it would really take to many the ship.. like I understand why the main character gets ghetto promoted to captain but what don't make sense is why he don't get a new medical chief for the med Bay.


To be fair I'm being picky is all and I believe anyone should give this book series a try, even thou I don't have anything better to listen right this what I get for now

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Good book.

Entertaining enough to keep me listening, narrator was okay too just needs to work on female voices.

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Ok

The reader seems to not match the context of the characters and situations they are jn

“Minds eye” is an overused phrase

Tag is the smartest guy in the story who solves every single mystery except the simple ones we all know already- because the greater plot demands he become inconveniently stupid

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a little exhausting

Every encounter in this story is a fight from certain death with the worst possible luck against the worst possible odds... with a split second sacrifice to save the day, over and over. The universe it's set in is interesting and many of the characters are fun to hear about....but sometimes it's tiring. A solid 3 maybe 3.5 . Definitely worth a listen while you're waiting for credits.

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WAAAY to many random escapes

Instead of striving , learning, overcoming… the protagonist in these novels win by impossible luck, over and over again… against impossible odds.. again and again. I’d doze off as they barely held on against wave after wave of enemies and wake up to them barely holding on against wave after wave of enemies…

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